Elemental

Elemental (2023) is a Pixar animated film you can watch online on iFILM. Director Peter Sohn built Element City — a dense, busy metropolis where fire, water, land and air communities all occupy the same map but keep strictly to their own zones. Crossing those invisible lines is just not done.

Ember is a sharp-tempered fire girl whose immigrant parents poured everything into their shop in the city's oldest fire district. She's supposed to take it over. Then Wade shows up — a water inspector who goes with any current and cries at practically everything — and a burst pipe in the family store turns into something neither of them planned for. The comedy/romance runs 103 minutes and carries real weight underneath the visual spectacle: Leah Lewis and Mamoudou Athie voice the leads, with Catherine O'Hara and Wendi McLendon-Covey rounding out the cast.

Sohn has talked openly about drawing on his own parents' immigrant experience to shape Ember's story, which gives the film a specific emotional texture that distinguishes it from the typical Pixar setup. Stream Elemental (2023) online on iFILM.